[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for librte_port

[Dumitrescu, Cristian]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 1:26 PM
> To: Dumitrescu, Cristian
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for librte_port
> 
> 2015-07-16 13:19, Cristian Dumitrescu:
> > +* librte_port (rte_port.h): Macros to access the packet meta-data stored
> within
> > +  the packet buffer will be adjusted to cover the packet mbuf structure as
> well,
> > +  as currently they are able to access any packet buffer location except the
> > +  packet mbuf structure. The consequence is that applications currently
> using
> > +  these macros will have to adjust the value of the offset parameter of
> these
> > +  macros by increasing it with sizeof(struc rte_mbuf). The affected macros
> are:
> > +  RTE_MBUF_METADATA_UINT<8, 16, 32, 64>_PTR and
> > +  RTE_MBUF_METADATA_UINT<8, 16, 32, 64>. In terms of code changes,
> most likely
> > +  only the definition of RTE_MBUF_METADATA_UINT8_PTR macro will be
> changed from
> > +  ``(&((uint8_t *) &(mbuf)[1])[offset])`` to
> > +  ``(&((uint8_t *) (mbuf))[offset])``.
> 
> Cristian,
> General comment: you are too verbose :)
> Specifically on this patch: same comment ;)

No problem, will simplify and resend. Thanks, Thomas.